A Small Revolution in Germany- Philip Hensher

As a teenager in Thatcherite Britain, Spike dreams of overthrowing the current political model. Enter the ‘Trotskyite Spartacist League’, a group of twenty-somethings hell bent on minor acts of civil disobedience.

Fast forward twenty years and the ‘radicals’ are now all well-know faces, in comfortable middle class professions. But not Spike. Let down by life’s promises of capitalist nuclear family bliss he continues to in the struggle to ‘bring down the systems’.

This is ultimately a book about people. People who believe themselves to be disillusioned, let down by life and a political system that continues to fail them time after time- could there be a more timely read?